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The images of the geeky scientist holed up in a lab and the absentminded professor whose experiments go comically awry may be pervasive in popular culture, but the 2011 World Science Festival made great strides in shattering those stereotypes and portraying science as a subject that is downright cool.

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride month, and LGBT students at NYU can be proud of the strides they have made in gaining a voice in the University and the Greenwich Village community over the past 40 years.